Description
Assignment 1 Write a 700- to 1,050-word journal entry in narrative style about the communications climate and culture in your organization from a managerial perspective.
Answer the following questions in the context of your professional setting.
- Analyze the need for diversity awareness in communications. Describe the level of diversity awareness in your organization's climate.
- Describe the demographic makeup of your organization. How does the diversity or lack of diversity affect organizational communication? Consider possible issues concerning prejudgment and stereotyping of disabilities, gender, sexual preference, race, age, political or religious views, and ethnicity.
- Explore the manager's role in creating a climate of ethical communication. What managerial strategies would best create an interculturally sensitive work environment? What is the importance of managerial awareness of ethical dimensions in the workplace?
Assignment 2 Visit the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) website. Find a real case involving job discrimination.
Design a seminar to train the new managers who are replacing those who demonstrated discrimination. This seminar should define the new managers' roles of establishing an organizational climate in which all employees feel valued and can contribute to the success of the company.
Choose how you want to
deliver your training plan.
For example, you may choose to create a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation
with speaker notes, or an equivalent multimedia program or technology
application such as video, audio, or web conferencing software.
Research the changing demographics of the U.S. workforce to support your seminar.
Include the following in your seminar:
- Discuss projected demographics for this company in terms of age, ethnicity, gender, lifestyle, and language. How might these factors influence communication inside and outside the company?
- Provide examples of cultural issues that may arise in this company. Consider, for example, employees whose cultural holidays do not align with those of the corporate calendar. Provide other examples and propose strategies for management to maintain cultural neutrality.
- Address the role of the manager as a communicator in a rapidly diversifying work environment. Analyze the specific diversity issues involved in the EEOC case. Outline managerial communication strategies to address prejudgment, discrimination, and stereotyping.
- Convey the managerial responsibilities to the new recruits regarding organizational values. Focusing on communication issues, supply suggestions for how, as managers, they may establish an interculturally sensitive organizational climate.
- Explain what is expected at this company in terms of an ethical communications climate. Clarify the manager's role in establishing and maintaining an ethical communications climate.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines. Include a reference page.
Assignment 3 Analyze the following trends in HR over the last 10 years in 700 to 1,050 words:
- Employee experience (culture, work-life), engagement
- Data (tracking turnover, performance, attendance, etc.)
- Performance - going away from ratings, social performance
- Increased need for data and analytics tools
- Five generations in the workplace (focus on millennials)
Summarize the impact of these trends in HR Management.
Cite outside sources according to APA formatting guidelines.
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Assignment Three
For the past ten years, the HR department has embraced changes to try to keep up with
the changing work environments and the trends of organizations. This can also be attributed to
technology advancement that tends to do most of the work that used to be done manually by HR
personnel. These include automatic payrolls, ease in recruiting process, talent management
which evaluate if the employees are getting the right training opportunities that facilitate
achievement of goals of a company. HR used to focus mainly on personnel management and
administrative tasks but currently, they put more emphasis on management of employees and
strengthening work culture. HR professionals are expected to provide helpful services to the firm
which will increase the morale of the team and thus improve productivity.
Most employees are currently not engaged in the activities of the organization. This
means that most employees don't love their jobs and thus they are not willing to put more effort.
Employees who are engaged are happy and productive. They are willing to take extra shifts so as
to improve the quality of work and thus make the business more successful. Most employees
enjoy the company of their coworkers rather than the actual job. The HR department should be in
a position to ensure that employee engagement is put into consideration which will help in strong
and meaningful relationships with the customers. It will also improve the strength of the team
and thus the working environment will also become better.
In the past, Human Resource (HR) managers experimented with the use of metrics to
calculate the impact and cost of programs in the workforce and the initiatives of the human
resource yet very few HR managers have background in analysis of data. Currently, HR
managers with a background in data skills are considered more effective in organizations since
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most of their work revolved around workforce data. In 2015, a report from Deloitte confirmed
that 9% of the respondents reported that the organizations they worked in had a strong team
which could deal with data analysis within HR (Milligan, 2017). 32% said that their
organizations were ready to start using predictive analysis. Use of data to assess and improve
recruitment, safety to succession and health strategies is now the most changing trend in HR in
most organizations....
